On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:31:38PM -0000, Hemsley, Trevor wrote:
> I downloaded the new mssql_version.nasl this morning. I had to hack it around a 
>little to make it work on 1.0.10 which is the version I am still running. However, it 
>appears to have a flaw - not so much in the script itself, more the fact that it 
>appears that all versions of SQL Server 2000 return a version string of 8.00.194 in 
>response to the SQL ping. Even those that the admins swear blind are patched with SP3.


This is now patched - do /usr/local/sbin/nessus-update-plugins to get
the new plugin.

> BTW, to make it work on 1.0.10, apart from removing the line for script_version() 
>which is invalid on 1.0, I also had to change the variable names "description[x]" 
>because they conflicted with the "if (description)" at the top of the file. I got a 
>warning message that description was first defined as scalar and it refused to run. 
>Maybe this would also be a problem on 1.2 - I don't know but if you know about it 
>then it can be checked.

*NEVER* install plugins after having manually downloaded them. Use
nessus-update-plugins instead, it fetches the right plugins for your
right version of Nessus.

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